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I live in a fairly hot area. Temperatures of 30 degrees plus are the norm here. I've cased my EQ jars and put the container the trays are in downstairs where it is the coolest, 27 degrees.

After 2 weeks of growth and no pinning I put 2 ice packs inside my container to try bring down the temperature to the 23-25 degree range. This has been overkill though, since the temp dropped down to 21 at times.

I'm assuming temperature is my problem since the humidity is fine.

Is there anyone who has had problems with too high temperatures when trying to get their casings to fruit? Any solutions? Your responses are appreciated.

yeah, even 27 (81f) is a little warm...id expect slow growth at that temp. Its too bad that the ice packs are inconsistant cooling devices. have you considered buying a small cooling unit/AC and putting it in a small room with your casings?i cant come up with much else right now, but ill keep thinking. it shouldnt be too hard to lower a small rooms temp by 5 or 6 degrees.

Hamurabi, I found a pretty good way to keep my fruiting chamber at the correct temperature. It?s pretty simple.

At first I put ice packs around my trays on the perlite. This caused the bottom of the container to be too cold and nothing fruited.

Then I got some plastic hooks and glued one on the wall of each fruiting chamber/container and hung one ice pack in each container. I got some aquarium air pumps with bubbler stones and put the pumps in a separate small container with 2 ice packs inside and connected with the bubbler stones inside the containers.

The cool air from the air pumps circulates the air inside the fruiting chamber nicely and prevents the cold air from collecting at the bottom. With no ice packs sitting on the bottom, the perlite isn?t so cold anymore either.

Today was about 36 outside, room temp 27 and inside the fruiting chamber a nice 24. Got my first pins today!!! And that?s after the trays sitting there since the beginning of the month at too high temperatures. I seem to have found my growing groove (hopefully).

There?s some nice info on air exchange and using bubblers in the MMGG at